Browsing by Subject "Social assistance"

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    Employment guarantee or minimum income?: workfare and welfare in developing countries
    (Inderscience, 2006) Seekings, Jeremy
    In many 'developing' countries widespread poverty is linked to landlessness and unemployment. Two possible responses to such poverty are employment guarantee (or public works) programmes and cash transfers. In general, low-wage job creation is the preferred option of both elites and citizens, but in South Africa cash transfers through a minimum income programme might, perversely, be more viable politically and effective more broadly in terms of poverty alleviation. The relative viability and efficacy of employment guarantees and cash transfers depends primarily on prevailing wages in the 'market'. In a high-wage economy such as South Africa, the political power of organised labour is generally sufficient to prevent low-wage employment creation in public works programmes. In the South African context - in contrast to low-wage settings such as India or Ethiopia - the extension of public welfare might be more viable than an employment guarantee, although the political obstacles should not be under-estimated.
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    South African Child Gauge 2016: Children and Social Assistance
    (Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2016-11) Delany, Aislinn; Jehoma, Selwyn; Lake, Lori
    The South African Child Gauge® is an annual publication of the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town. It aims to report on and monitor the situation of children in South Africa, in particularly the realisation of their rights. The publication focuses on a different theme each year. The 2016 issue issue focuses on the theme of Children and Social Assistance.